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ISiS Radboud @isis-radboud.bsky.social · 28d

New academic year -- new ISiS colloquia with many super interesting talks about AI, human-nature relations, philosophy of physics and social science, research assessment, projects at our institute etc. etc. 👩🏽‍🔬🤖📃🌳 #STS #philsci #ecology

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EU Philosophy of Astronomy & Cosmology @eu-phil-cosmo.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ending the first day of our Spacetime Matters conference with a keynote by Kian Salimkhani

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jul 25

Our PhD student Karla Weingarten (@karlawg.bsky.social) just published her first paper! "Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models" is now available open access at @thebjps.bsky.social.

Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 0, No ja

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jul 25

Our PhD student Karla Weingarten (@karlawg.bsky.social) just published her first paper! "Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models" is now available open access at @thebjps.bsky.social.

Understanding Particle Interactions: Feynman Diagrams as Representative Models | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 0, No ja

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jul 18

Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy says yes!

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Jul 18

Is it time to bring back natural philosophy? ABC Radio chats with Sandra Mitchell, Alan Guth, Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social, David Albert and me, as produced by @danfalk.bsky.social.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Is it time to bring back natural philosophy? - ABC listen

Once upon a time, what we now call scientists were known as "natural philosophers". These were people who studied the physical universe through observation and logic, using philosophical methods and r...

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · Jul 8

New from the BJPS Review of Books

The Non-fundamentality of Spacetime
– Kian Salimkhani

Reviewed by Noel Swanson

Read it here: www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...

#philsci #philsky

Kian Salimkhani, The Non-fundamentality of Spacetime | BJPS Review of Books

Noel Swanson reviews The Non-fundamentality of Spacetime, by Kian Salimkhani

www.thebsps.org

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jun 7

Wonderful piece by James Read with a shout-out to the apparently roughly 300 philosophers of physics, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, and the RCNP!

Why do philosophy of physics when you can do physics itself? | Aeon Essays

Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful

aeon.co

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jun 3

Two RCNP members are part of the organizing team of this lecture series, which aims to present topics in the philosophy of science broadly construed to a general audience, especially to undergraduate and graduate students.

Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jun 3

New Quarterly Lecture in Philosophy of Science

On Wednesday (tomorrow), 4 June, at 4 pm CEST, Jill North (Rutgers) will talk about "Losing an i: On the Naturalness of Complex Numbers for Quantum Mechanics". Join us online!

More information and the Zoom link:

Quartalsvorlesungen | Philosophie und Physik

Was ist Philosophie der Physik? Und wie werde ich Philosoph*in der Physik?

www.philosophiederphysik.de

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · May 22

Newly advertised PhD position supervised by Marij van Strien.

The focus is on philosophical discussions around physics in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Possible topics include conceptions of causality, chance, emergence, or chaos theory.

PhD Position: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Position: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · May 22

Newly advertised PhD position supervised by Marij van Strien.

The focus is on philosophical discussions around physics in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Possible topics include conceptions of causality, chance, emergence, or chaos theory.

PhD Position: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Position: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies? Check our vacancy!

www.ru.nl

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Apr 22

Marij van Strien wrote a short article for IAI News, "How quantum mechanics changed science forever: Rationality, anarchy, and bad science".

How quantum mechanics changed science forever | Marij van Strien

iai.tv

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ISiS Radboud @isis-radboud.bsky.social · Mar 13

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Demonstrations against budget cuts on 13 March | Radboud University

Staff members have announced that they will join a relay strike on Thursday 13 March against the Dutch Cabinet’s cuts to the education budget. Some students also want to demonstrate.

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ISiS Radboud @isis-radboud.bsky.social · Mar 12

Introducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP 👇

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🙌 @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social #philphysics #philsci #HPS #histscience

Introducing the research of ISiS members at the RCNP | Radboud University

Recently, the Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy (RCNP) officially started its mission to conduct research at the intersection of mathematical physics, philosophy of physics, and history of physics...

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 28

In a few minutes our postdoc Martin Voggenauer will present a recently accepted paper at our RCNP colloquium: "Explaining Objective Probabilities by Physical Symmetries". Feel free to join us from time to time, it's hybrid!

Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 27

Today marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Here is Eva Szepesi, a survivor of the Shoah, addressing the German Bundestag one year ago.

"It appalls me that right-wing extremist parties are again being voted for" Holocaust remembrance

YouTube video by DW News

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 11

At the end paraphrazing Greenberger: maybe we are much closer to the start of natural philosophy than to its end

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 11

Jeremy offered a reflection on the discipline, exploring the idea and role of natural philosophy. Should a philosopher of physics be more like a pilot fish, a miner, or the conscience of physics? And he had some remarks on math. We'll post the link to the recordings soon!

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Henk de Regt @henkderegt.bsky.social · Jan 10

The RCNP members during the second day of our opening conference Impossible Triangles of Thought #rcnp2025

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 10

That was amazing! Many many thanks to all the speakers for really wonderful talks and all the participants for all the inspiring discussions! More soon! ##rcnp2025

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 10

An open question at the end: How to teach Natural Philosophy in a >425 ppm world?

Bryan puts it nicely: we act when we care and we care when we understand

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 10

What a blast! Sylvia Wenmackers now delivering the final presentation on teaching natural philosophy before we'll come to a typical Dutch end: Borrel (drinks)!

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 10

Bryan Roberts urging you to be a good philosopher of physics by heeding Jeremy's call: Be a wizard! #rcnp2025

Bryan Roberts standing behind a cluttered desk

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 10

Flavio del Santo mentions guest editing work together with @bernalessel.bsky.social in his talk "The future of indeterminism looking at the past". #rcnp2025

Flavio. Background: slide on a special issue in EPJH

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Radboud Centre for Natural Philosophy @rcnp-nijmegen.bsky.social · Jan 10

James delivering bad news to some #rcnp2025

James in front of a slide: some might complain that the list is lacking... past hypothesis, hole argument, usual suspects... sorry guys you are old news.

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